Sociable Media: A Self-Reflexive by Addison Conn
By aconnApril 23, 2021 - 16:35
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The fire keeps burning and I am already ashes:
My name is Lorelei and I am:
Hey y'all! Here are the links to my essays and reflection. I've really enjoyed meeting you guys and hanging out this semester - I'm really glad we got to spend this time together. Good luck with the rest of the year!
Also here's my self portrait!
This statement feels overused and I'm a tad worried it'll cheapen the sincerity of my sentiment however it's how I feel, Critcal Disability Studies has easily been one of my favorite college courses. When I fist came into the class, disability studies and disability culture were two things that I had never really spent to much time thinking about. I think because I considered myself to be a relatively open and non-judgmental person I thought that I didn't need to consider abalism because I wasn't practicing it myself. It wasn't till we got into the course that I realized how many of my preceptions of disability culture were not only inaccurate but offensive in a lot of cases.
I left my CCW notebook at Bryn Mawr so there's an additional paragraph in my reflection talking about what I wrote about in my notebook that I can remember. Thanks :)
In this second attempt to learn about and understand disability studies as a discipline, a follow-up from my first-year writing seminar, I feel that the work I have been doing has sunk in for me in a way that I hadn’t previously experienced. Truly, I see ableism as more deeply ingrained in and intertwined with daily life than I ever did before taking this class. Some of this understanding undoubtedly comes from the time we’re living: during a pandemic, disability, illness, and access feel particularly relevant. However, I also think I’ve become more inspired to be alert to the smaller and larger injustices that occupy my day-to-day existence even outside of the atypicality represented by living during a globe-altering virus outbreak.
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